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I wrote about this story two days ago, when CNN first reported that the government had "lost" 1,500 illegal alien children. Well, they aren't lost in any real sense. But that hasn't stopped the media from reporting it.

I shall be a beach bum and will eat nothing but pizza and beer from here on out. Excuse me while I go catch this wave...

38 year old child movie star Corey Haim was found dead today in his apartment, known for movies like 1986's feel good movie Lucas, also starring Winona Ryder and Charlie Sheen, and 1987's Horror/thriller The Lost Boys and with Keifer Sutherland and lifelong friend Corey Feldman ...

Brent Jeffs was one tired-out ex-Mormon fundamentalist last week in Denver, but still a man on a mission. Back-to-back book-signings and 17-hour days in Salt Lake City, Phoenix and Denver for Jeff's recently released memoir, "Lost Boy," alternately wound him up or wore him down to feeling like "a zombie," he said. Jeffs juggles a day job with Ultradent dental products with a personal quest. Brent, the 26-year-old nephew of Warren Jeffs, the convicted felon and former prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, is determined to make known the extent of what he describes...

SANDY, UTAH -- The polygamist sect preached that Dan Fischer was a heretic who had turned his back on God's chosen children. .... But for Enos Deloy Steed, who was banished at age 17 for kissing a girl, Fischer was like a guardian angel, the kindest man he had ever met. .... "He's a remarkable man," Utah Atty. Gen. Mark Shurtleff said of Fischer. "He has done more for the lost boys than everyone else combined. I know he doesn't like to brag about it, but he has spent millions."

One phase of FLDS work is complete SAN ANGELO, Texas — The last of the extra Texas state troopers, child welfare investigators and others involved in the massive effort of caring for Fundamentalist LDS Church children in custody have rolled out of town. "The demobilization of resources in San Angelo was completed only (Monday)," said Gov. Rick Perry's spokeswoman Krista Piferrer. "It was a large scale effort with a tremendous law enforcement presence, nonprofit presence and (Child Protective Services) workers from all around the state. We basically transformed a coliseum into a shelter.-SNIP- Boys locatedAttorneys identified Monday the location of...

An attorney for FLDS families in Texas today challenged the state's claim of a pervasive pattern of underage girls having children, saying the state's own documents show that just two teenagers in custody are pregnant. SnipOf the three teenagers listed as pregnant, Parker said, one is about to turn 18 and another refused to take a pregnancy test, he said. "That leaves us with one," he said. Based on that list, Parker said, "I challenge the CPS to come forward with the pregnant minors." Chris Van Deusen, a CPS spokesman, said, "The only thing we can say is we're aware...

After decades of ignoring the polygamous sects of the American Southwest, state and federal officials are now cracking down on the child abuse and other illegal activity within them. Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), has been convicted of being an accomplice to rape and sentenced to two five years-to-life terms. Mohave County, Arizona, charged eight others for sexual conduct with minors in 2005. In March, 2006, the federal government fined one contractor over $10,000 in child labor law violations for using FLDS boys. Washington County, Utah, prosecutor Brock Belnap is investigating deaths of children in the...

Forced marriages. Underage sex. Teenaged mothers. That is the portrait emerging for the hundreds of girls who have been removed by the state from a polygamist sect’s compound in West Texas that is now the center of one of the largest child welfare investigations in American history. But what about the boys who are among the 416 children taken from the YFZ (Yearn For Zion) Ranch? The numbers of boys among the 416 children is believed to be far exceeded by the number of girls in custody. And the Texas boys are thought to have escaped the hardships felt by...

ST. GEORGE, Utah — Woodrow Johnson was 15, and by the rules of the polygamous sect in which his family lived, he had a vice that could condemn them to hell: He liked to watch movies. When his parents discovered his secret stash of DVDs, including the “Die Hard” series and comedies, they burned them and gave him an ultimatum. Stop watching movies, they said, or leave the family and church for good. -SNIP- Andrew Chatwin, 39, the uncle who took Woodrow in, left the sect 10 years ago. He explained how the expulsions usually happen: “The leaders tell the...

Sudanese 'Lost Boy,' Now U.S. Citizen, Enlists In Army By MAUREEN SIEH   Jacob Majok, right, gets an Army cap from recruiter Sgt. 1st Class Peter Palumb Jr. before leaving for basic training. (Photo by Dick Blume)     SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Jacob Majok survived the Sudanese war that killed his parents.Now he has made a decision that likely will put him back in a war zone: He enlisted in the U.S. Army.He left Syracuse recently for Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., to begin basic training."I became an American citizen and I think it's my duty to defend America,'' said Majok,...

Sect's 'Lost Boys' struggle to find a place An Arizona-based polygamist sect has expelled more than 400 teen boys to leave more brides for older men BY JAIMEE ROSE Arizona Republic On an icy evening before Christmas, two teenage boys pulled their Christmas tree from its slick new box and stared in wonder. They fluffed the branches and puzzled over ornament placement — how exactly does this work? Are you supposed to follow a pattern or just stick them on? They knew they wanted piles of lights, and the boys laughed as they chased each other around the tree, spiraling...

In Sudan in the 1980s, the Muslim government in the north began to persecute Christians, first by denying them human rights and then by enslaving, torturing, and killing them. Rebel forces banded together to fight back, but the bloodshed only worsened. To escape the genocide, over 12,000 young boys walked out of the country to seek safety in Ethiopia. In August 1987, I was 10 years old when I became one of the Lost Boys of Sudan. Our first journey took us through deserts and mountains into Ethiopia. We walked for many months with bloody feet. Many boys died from...

An inquiry into the June deaths of three boys who suffocated while playing in the trunk of a broken-down car even as the police undertook a wide search concluded today with a finding that had long been suspected: No one thought to look inside the family car. Despite the failure of police officers to check the Toyota Camry - a place where at least one of the boys had been known to play - authorities said today that no one would be disciplined in the case. "I don't think any purpose would be served to have heads roll," Vincent P....

BU medical researchers find family, community engagement may mediate traumatic reaction (Boston) -- About five years ago, escaping the war, violence, and forced flight from their homeland, around 300 young Sudanese boys found new homes in America. Bereft of family, these "Lost Boys of Sudan" were placed with U.S. families, where, in large part, they thrived. Their resettlement, however, has not been without a new sort of trauma. According to a recent study by Paul L. Geltman, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine, and colleagues, many of these young men have exhibited the behavioral and...

WYOMING [(MI)]-- He lost his parents at age 4 to his homeland's brutal civil war. He survived a 600-mile march to neighboring Ethiopia. Then, this "Lost Boy" of Sudan languished in a Kenyan refugee camp for nine years before coming to West Michigan as a refugee in 2000. Now, Simon Majak figures it's time that he gives back -- by putting on the uniform of the U.S. Marine Corps. "This is my new country," said Majak, 22, who expects to ship out Saturday for boot camp in California. "Joining the Marines is my way of saying thank you."

A mediation committee in southern Sudan has secured the freedom of 85 black Sudanese boys who had been held as slaves, Christian Solidarity International reports. The Arab-Dinka Peace Committee facilitated the rescue, which was documented last week by an international team of researchers sponsored by CSI. The freed slave boys were among the tens of thousands of black women and children who had been enslaved by Sudanese government-sponsored militias during two decades of civil war. All of the boys reported that they were forced to work without pay and were frequently beaten and subjected to racial insults. According to CSI,...

As young boys under the age of 10, they trekked almost 1,000 miles from Sudan to Ethiopia, back to Sudan and into a refugee camp in Kenya. They saw other boys fall victim to lions and crocodiles, drown in rivers, die from starvation and disease and killed by soldiers. Three of the "lost boys of Sudan" moved to Hendersonville from Atlanta a few weeks ago with their sponsor, Tricia Beall, owner of Studio B. Laat "Abraham" Deng, Martin Deng and Victor Deng are three of the about 17,000 boys who set out in 1989 on a four-year trek to escape...

Lost Boy attains Eagle Scout rank HIGH POINT -- Kuanyin Abur once hiked hundreds of miles to escape persecution and death. Since arriving in America, hiking has earned the Sudanese native more than merit badges. Abur is one of the "Lost Boys," a group of 30,000 southern Sudanese boys orphaned by civil war. In 2000, the United States began to resettle nearly 4,000 Lost Boys in America. About 150 live in Guilford County. Abur became a Boy Scout -- with Emerywood Baptist Church's Troop 2 -- soon after his arrival. On Friday, he completed the steps to become an Eagle...

I watched with amusement at last nite's Brokaw's "Lost Boys" ....last time I checked if I referred to a black as a "boy" I would be called a racist....I guess liberals can get away with it....I actually thought there would be a outcry from Jesse and the NAACP this morning ...but nothing....what made this story even more amazing was how these so called "lost boys" are now dealing with western culture... LOST BOYS Cindy Koser is one of those American sponsors. She knows she has many challenges ahead with these young men. They’re used to living in mud houses without ...